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Steven Gray of Washington Bureau Announces His Exit Five years ago, Journal-isms asked Ali Zelenko, vice president for communications at Time Inc., to name the journalists of color at Time magazine. Among the 15 she listed were black journalists Janice Simpson, assistant managing editor; Ta-Nehisi Coates, staff writer; Perry Bacon Jr., Washington correspondent; and Sonja…

George Curry, Partners Seek to Own Women’s Magazine If financing arrangements succeed, Heart & Soul, a health-and-fitness magazine targeting black women, will be acquired by what would be its sixth owner in its 23 years — a group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry and his former associates at Black Entertainment Television and the…

“Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned author Isabel Wilkerson has not fulfilled her requirements as a College of Communication professor and a member of the Boston University faculty-in-residence program despite her relatively high professor’s salary and other benefits, BU students and faculty said,” Steph Solis reported Monday for the Daily Free Press at Boston University. “The…

“Executives at OWN think they may have found a way to salvage Oprah Winfrey’s struggling network: by catering more to an African-American audience. That may help ratings, but it would mean a dramatic shift, and one that could put the channel at odds with Winfrey’s own brand,” D.M. Levine wrote Thursday for Adweek. “According to…

T.J. Holmes, the affable CNN weekend anchor who told colleagues on Sunday he was leaving the network, is heading for Black Entertainment Television, according to a source familiar with Holmes’ situation. BET plans to build a show around Holmes, 34, the source said. Neither Holmes nor spokeswomen for BET were available for comment. BET made…

Has Infidelity Been Elevated as Electoral Issue? “All along, the Herman Cain campaign — which Politico called ‘one of the most hapless and bumbling operations in modern presidential politics’ — has been riveting but improbable,” Edward Wasserman, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington,…

James Ragland will be reassigned to reporting in neighboring Collin County, Texas, while his arrest on a domestic assault charge is adjudicated, Morning News Editor Bob Mong told Journal-isms on Friday. “There’s no way he can continue his column where he isn’t facing some inevitable conflict,” Mong said. “He writes about the criminal justice system,…

Using FOIA, Bloomberg Obtains 29,000 Pages of Fed Papers “The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing,” Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz of Bloomberg…

“Two female foreign journalists on Thursday described harrowing sexual assaults carried out by crowds or police as they tried to cover demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square,” Agence France-Presse reported. The situation alarmed other journalists. Hannah Allam, Cairo bureau chief of the McClatchy Co., tweeted Friday, “Saddens me that in 9yrs of war reporting, most personal…